water wars. blue gold rush !

Gold  is something one can do without.  Most of the world does without it, anyway. The dollar has done well even without the gold backing .Blue gold , though, is something we just can't do without.Not just "we" but all life forms. all life. 

the continuity  of life itself depends on water. Without it there is no life. no blue planet.   Seeking to control it is sheer evil. sheer, sickening evil.  what more can one say. 

The author Mark Twain once remarked that "whisky is for drinking; water is for fighting over" and a series of reports from intelligence agencies and research groups indicate the prospect of a water war is becoming increasingly likely. 

In March, a report from the office of the US Director of National Intelligence said the risk of conflict would grow as water demand is set to outstrip sustainable current supplies by 40 per cent by 2030.

"These threats are real and they do raise serious national security concerns," Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, said after the report's release.

But Adel Darwish, a journalist and co-author of Water Wars: Coming Conflicts in the Middle East, says modern history has already seen at least two water wars.

"I have [former Israeli prime minister] Ariel Sharon speaking on record saying the reason for going to war [against Arab armies] in 1967 was for water," Darwish told Al Jazeera.

Some analysts believe Israel continues to occupy the Golan heights, seized from Syria in 1967, due to issues of water control, while others think the occupation is about maintaining high ground in case of future conflicts.

In India, Coke will get contracts and then build fortresses around the water sources," taking drinking and irrigation water away from local people.

"People have the right to expect access to a basic life resource like water by virtue of being human, regardless of the social situation they are born into," Saiz said. "Alongside the worrying development of water scarcity, I am hopeful that we will see increasing struggles to see access to water as a right, and not a priviledge."

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2011/06/2011622193147231653.html